Thomas grace



T. GRACE.

(No Mode l.)

WATER CLOSET.

Patented Jan. 5, 1897.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS GRAOE, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE BAILEY-FARRELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

,WATER-CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 574,679, dated January5, 1897.

Application filed April 29,1895. Serial No. 547,544. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.- 7

Be it known that I, THOMAS GRACE, a resia dent of Pittsburg, in thecounty of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Tater-Closets; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to Water-closets. The object of myinvention is toprovide a To simple form of mechanism for flushing the bowl by themovement of the seat, and the particular points of the invention will befully hereinafter set forth and claimed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use myinvention, I willdescribe the same more fully, referring to the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a top view of a closet embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a side view. Fig.

3 is a view of the'seat depressed. Fig. 4 is a view of the seat whenraised. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are detail views.

Like letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

The bowl to may be the ordinary earthenware bowl, andsecured withinsuitable recesses formed within the projections c of said bowl are thebearings b. WVithin said bearings b are journaled the studs or journals0 of the cranks 0. These cranks c are secured to the crank-shaft d.Secured to the seat e are the rods f. Said rods may enter seats in saidseat so as to be capable of being withdrawn or forced into said seats,according to the distance at which the bowl is located from the wall.This construction is fully set forth and claimed in an application forLetters Patent filed by me April 10, 1895, Serial No. 545,149. The outerends of the rods f have the rings f, which encircle the crank-shaft (1.One or both of the sockets g, in which the ends of the crank-shaft d aresecured, have a seat or recess it formed therein, and one or both ofsaid rods f have a lug f thereon,which engages with the recess 71,formed in said sockets. The said lug f is capable of moving freely insaid recess when the seat e is raised to a certain height, but when saidlug strikes against the shoulder h", formed by said recess h, thecrank-shaft d will be acted on in a maunor more fully hereinafter setforth.

Secured to the crank-shaft d is the rigid loop 1', which is connected tothe operatingchain 70. A rigid rod may be employed instead of saidchain, if so desired. The chain 7c is connected with the flushingmechanism such as that shown and described in the ap plication forLetters Patent hereinbefore referred to. I

The loop 21 is preferably employed, because it permits of the passage ofthe flushing-pipe Ztherethrough; but I do not confine myself to such aform of connection between the rocking-bar and the chain.

The seat 6 in its normal position has its 6 5 front end in contact withthe bowl and its rear end slightly elevated from said bowl. When theseatis occupied, the rear end is depressed, as shown in Fig. 3,whereupon the crank-shaft d, acted on by the rods f, is lowered. Theloop 1' will also be lowered, carrying with it the chain 7;. This chainbeing connected to suitable flushing mechanism in the tank will sooperate said mechanism that immediately the seat is vacated and thechain raised the bowl will be flushed.

The bowl may beflushed in another way. By lifting the seat cthe rings fon the rods f will turn on the crank-shaft cl until the lug f comes incontact with the shoulder h of the recess it. As soon as said lug fstrikes the shoulder 71, and the seat is forced back still farther thecrank-shaft (1 will be forced down and with it the loop 2', as shown inFig; 4. The chain will be lowered and the mechanism in the tank above sooperated that when the seat is again lowered and the crank-shaftdpermitted to assume its normal position the bowl will be flushed. It isapparent that the lid we could be connected up with the crank-shaft inthe same manner as the seat, so that upon the raising or lowering of thelid the bowl will be flushed.

' I have used the term rock-bar in the claims as designating any form ofa bar which 5 will rock or turn to operate the flushing mechanism.

Ido not confine myself to any particular manner of flushing the bowl,and I have only alluded to the flushing mechanism as set 'forth in theapplication for Letters Patent adapted to engage a shoulder on saidrockbar, and connections between said rock-bar and flushing mechanism,substantially as set forth.

In a water-closet, the combination of a swinging seat, a rock-bar,rodsin said seat and journaled on said rock-bar, a lug on said rodfitting in a recess on said rock-bar, and connections between saidrock-bar and the flushing mechanism, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I, the said THOMAS GRACE, have hereunto set myhand.

THOMAS GRACE. Vitnesses:

Row. D. TOTTEN, ROBERT C. TOTTEN.

